PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

 BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYES

 SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES IN TEXAS & LOUISIANA

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood

 (a) That L. R. Hurley was denied assignment as Assistant Foreman in line with his seniority, on bulletin dated October 30, 1940;

 (b) That L. R. Hurley be accorded a seniority date as Assistant Foreman of November 25, 1940; and

 (c) That L. R. Hurley be paid the difference between what he received as B. & B. carpenter and what he would have received had he been assigned as Assistant Foreman for the period a junior employe served in that capacity.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:

 That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parte by complainant party; and

 That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of November 3 1943, the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which request is hereby granted.

Case dismissed.


ATTEST: H. A. Johnson
 Secretary

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 5th day of November, 1943.